{"id":"22.3","chapter":22,"number":3,"text":"Whosoever takes an Oath, ought duly to consider the weightiness of so solemn an act; and therein to avouch nothing, but what he is fully persuaded is the truth. Neither may any man bind himself by Oath to any thing but what is good and just, and what he believes so to be, and what he is able, and resolved to perform. Yet is it a sin, to refuse an Oath touching any thing that is good and just, being imposed by lawful Authority.","segments":[{"text":"Whosoever takes an Oath, ought duly to consider the weightiness of so solemn an act; and therein to avouch nothing, but what he is fully persuaded is the truth.","proofs":["Exodus 20:7","Jeremiah 4:2"],"refs":[{"printed":"Exodus 20:7","osis":["Exod.20.7"]},{"printed":"Jeremiah 4:2","osis":["Jer.4.2"]}],"note":null},{"text":"Neither may any man bind himself by Oath to any thing but what is good and just, and what he believes so to be, and what he is able, and resolved to perform.","proofs":["Genesis 24:2–3","Genesis 24:5–6","Genesis 24:8–9"],"refs":[{"printed":"Genesis 24:2–3","osis":["Gen.24.2-Gen.24.3"]},{"printed":"Genesis 24:5–6","osis":["Gen.24.5-Gen.24.6"]},{"printed":"Genesis 24:8–9","osis":["Gen.24.8-Gen.24.9"]}],"note":null},{"text":"Yet is it a sin, to refuse an Oath touching any thing that is good and just, being imposed by lawful Authority.","proofs":["Numbers 5:19","Numbers 5:21","Nehemiah 5:12","Exodus 22:7–11"],"refs":[{"printed":"Numbers 5:19","osis":["Num.5.19"]},{"printed":"Numbers 5:21","osis":["Num.5.21"]},{"printed":"Nehemiah 5:12","osis":["Neh.5.12"]},{"printed":"Exodus 22:7–11","osis":["Exod.22.7-Exod.22.11"]}],"note":null}],"relations":{"lbcf1689-modernized":["23.3"],"savoy1658-modernized":["23.3"],"wcf1646":["22.3"]},"diffs":[{"source":"lbcf1689-modernized","type":"later","segments":[{"text":"is fully persuaded is the truth. Neither may any man bind himself by Oath to any thing but what is good and just, and what he believes so","position":null},{"text":"and what he is able, and resolved to perform. Yet is it a sin, to refuse an Oath touching any thing","position":null},{"text":"is good and just, being imposed","position":null},{"text":"lawful Authority.","position":null}]},{"source":"savoy1658-modernized","type":"later","segments":[{"text":"is it","position":null},{"text":"lawful","position":null}]}],"page":null,"leaf":null}